Schizophrenic patients who smoke have a faster finger tapping rate than non-smokers
| Autor: | Nili Shlomo, Ilan Modai, Henry Silver, Michael S. Ritsner, Christoph Hiemke, M. L. Rao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male Nicotine medicine.medical_specialty Patients Movement medicine.medical_treatment Clinical state Fingers Internal medicine medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Nicotinic Agonists Antipsychotic Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry Pharmacology Smoke Analysis of Variance Smoking Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Neurology Schizophrenia Finger tapping Plasma concentration Smoking status Neurology (clinical) Psychology Psychomotor Performance medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | European Neuropsychopharmacology. 12:141-144 |
| ISSN: | 0924-977X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0924-977x(01)00149-3 |
| Popis: | The increased rate of smoking in schizophrenia patients remains unexplained and may reflect attempts at self-treatment. The effect sought from smoking may be related to nicotine's stimulating action. We tested this hypothesis by examining the relationship between smoking status and finger tapping rate, a measure of central processing, in schizophrenia patients treated with atypical antipsychotics. Smokers showed significantly faster finger tapping rates than non-smokers. This was not related to clinical state, illness chronicity, medication side-effects, antipsychotic dose or plasma concentrations. Nicotine can improve central processing in medicated schizophrenia patients and this may constitute part of the incentive for smoking. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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